that's what I was looking for.
but I guess you never got that to work.
I have less than half of my wbfs drive filled, so doing that would be easy.
the only problem is I don't see how i can do any of that manually since windows can't read wbfs and I'm forced to use wbfs manager

As I understand it PsyBlade posted an outline of an algorithm/procedure that would do it, but none of the Devs was interested in implementing it. It shouldn't be to hard to implement for someone knowing the programming side of wbfs.

While its more of an algorithm, the main reason I wanted to automate it is the potentially high number of steps needed.
But with a drive that was never more than half full one could do it manually without to much hassle.

The principle will work on most OS.
Problem is I dont know enough about windows to do it there by myself.
But if you can use linux or know someone, I can walk you through it.
You will need at least enough experience to use things like fdisk mkfs dd etc. without loosing data by accident.

I expect it to take roughly twice the time of copying via a second drive too.

While its more of an algorithm, the main reason I wanted to automate it is the potentially high number of steps needed.
But with a drive that was never more than half full one could do it manually without to much hassle.

The principle will work on most OS.
Problem is I dont know enough about windows to do it there by myself.
But if you can use linux or know someone, I can walk you through it.
You will need at least enough experience to use things like fdisk mkfs dd etc. without loosing data by accident.

I expect it to take roughly twice the time of copying via a second drive too.

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I usually install a ubuntu dual boot on my computer, but since getting this one I have yet to do so and I'm only on windows.
I understand partitioning and such, but I don't understand how I'm supposed to move the files to the new partition when I can't view the wbfs partition in an explorer window.

Edit: actually, this gives me an opportunity to finally install Ubuntu here. I'll start that now

I guess that makes sense.
nothing goes on in the wbfs drive to cause any of the data to have been sorted into the back.
so defraging isn't neccessary.
I'm going to try to partition it and move them over now

I shrunk the partition and I made sure I left more space than necessary on it, but now it can't be read with wbfs manager
I'm going to check if I can still play off of it

Update:
nope, usb loader said "HD num sector doesn't match" and would load it.
I knew what this meant, so I deleted the NTFS volume and extended the WBFS volume to the full size as it was before.
and it works again.

so had anybody successfully resized a wbfs partition?
or do I need Linux, cause I just finished downloading the disk image anyway and was about to install it